Heyday is an independent nonprofit publisher based in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...

. Heyday was founded by Malcolm Margolin in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed ''The East Bay Out'', a guide to the natural history of the hills and bay shore in and round Berkeley and Oakland, in the

East Bay The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties ...

of the

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. Heyday publishes around twenty books a year, as well as the quarterly magazine ''News from Native California''. In 2004, they merged with their nonprofit wing, the Clapperstick Institute, and became a full-fledged 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise. In 2016, Margolin retired from Heyday, and Steve Wasserman, previously editor-in-chief of the ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'' and an editor-at-large at

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, became Margolin's successor as publisher and executive director.

The Berkeley Roundhouse

The Berkeley Roundhouse, also known as the California Indian Publishing Program (CIPP), focuses on California

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Peoples. The Roundhouse hosts Native events and provides literature to under-served

community members. Since 1987, Heyday has published the quarterly magazine ''News from Native California'', which is written from a

People's perspective.

Partnerships

Heyday is a frequent partner with other California cultural organizations. Heyday co-founded the California Historical Society Press with the

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, which together have published several books. Heyday has produced books in conjunction with the California Council for the Humanities; the

California State Library The California State Library is the state library of the State of California, founded in 1850 by the California State Legislature. The Library collects, preserves, generates and disseminates a wide array of information. Today, it is the central ...

; the Bancroft Library at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

; the

Oakland Museum of California The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, Cal ...

; the

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; Santa Clara University; the

California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 ...

; the

Japanese American National Museum The is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affil ...

; and the Yosemite Association (now Yosemite Conservancy). Working with the California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University, Heyday produced the California Legacy series, which focused on California's literary and cultural heritage. In partnership with the Inlandia Institute at the Riverside Public Library, Heyday published books on the Inland Empire in Southern California. Heyday has also published books on

Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...

, and the Sierra Nevada, for the park. Currently Heyday partners with

Sierra College Sierra College is a public community college in Rocklin, California. It is part of the Sierra Joint Community College District, a district that covers over , serves Placer, Nevada and parts of El Dorado and Sacramento counties. History The co ...

to publish books in collaboration with the Sierra College Press.

Events

Heyday sponsors over two hundred events annually. Three of Heyday's books have served as the basis for

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documentaries. Heyday organizes talks, readings, workshops, presentations and displays across the state, and has additionally held events in fourteen states and three countries.

Museum exhibits

Heyday's titles have launched, or have accompanied, numerous museum exhibitions. More than twenty books published by Heyday have been adapted into exhibits and museum shows, at such venues as the

and the

Autry National Center The Autry Museum of the American West is a museum in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to exploring an inclusive history of the American West. Founded in 1988, the museum presents a wide range of exhibitions and public programs, including le ...

Select bibliography

* ''The East Bay Out: A Personal Guide to the East Bay Regional Parks'', Malcolm Margolin, illustrations by Carl Dennis Buell, maps by Sharon G. Johnson (1974) * ''The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area'', Malcolm Margolin, illustrations by Michael Harney (1978) * ''The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Remembrances'', edited by Malcolm Margolin (1981) * ''Humphrey the Wayward Whale'',

Ernest Callenbach Ernest Callenbach (April 3, 1929 – April 16, 2012) was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent. He became famous due to his internationally successful semi-utopian novel '' Ecotopia'' (1975). Life and work Born ...

and Christine Leefeldt (about the whale nicknamed

Humphrey Humphrey is both a masculine given name and a surname. An earlier form, not attested since Medieval times, was Hunfrid. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Medieval period :''Ordered chronologically'' *Hunfrid of P ...

) (1986) * ''Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town'', Jeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow. (1987) (subject:

Locke, California Locke, also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in California's Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The 10 acre town was first developed between 1893 and 1915 approximately one mile north of the town of Walnut Gr ...

) * ''

The Harvest Gypsies ''The Harvest Gypsies'' is a series of articles by John Steinbeck written on commission for ''The San Francisco News'' focusing on the lives and times of migrant workers in California's Central Valley. Published daily from October 5 to 12, 1936, ...

: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath'', John Steinbeck (1938, first published by Heyday 1988) * ''Berkeley Inside Out'', Don Pitcher and Malcolm Margolin (1989) * ''Life in a California Mission'', Jean Francois de la Perouse (1797, first published by Heyday 1989) * '' Stickeen'',

John Muir John Muir ( ; April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist ...

(1897, first published by Heyday 1990) * ''Jack London and His Daughters'', Joan London (1990) * ''The Bay Area at War: How We Reacted to the Persian Gulf Crisis'', edited by Eric Newton and Roger Rapoport (with the

Oakland Tribune The ''Oakland Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. Founded in 1874, the ''Tribune'' rose to become an influential daily newspaper. With the declin ...

) (1991) * ''To the American Indian: Reminiscenses of a Yurok Woman'', Weitch-Ah-Wah, Che-Na-Wah (a.k.a. Lucy Thompson) (reprint edition, 1991) * ''Ararapíkva: Creation Stories of the People'', edited by Julian Lang (1994) (Four Karuk traditional narratives collected from Phoebe Maddux and Fritz Hansen by John P. Harrington in 1926 and from Margaret Harrie by Hans Jørgen Uldall in 1932.) * ''Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History'',

Joaquin Miller Cincinnatus Heine Miller (; September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller (), was an American poet, author, and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which h ...

(reprint edition, 1996) * ''Flutes of Fire'',

Leanne Hinton Leanne Hinton (born 28 September 1941) is an American linguist and emerita professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Education and career Hinton received her PhD in 1977 from UC San Diego, with a dissertation entitle ...

(1996) * ''Two Bear Cubs'', Robert D. San Souci (1997) * ''Into A Wild Sanctuary: A Life in Music & Natural Sound'',

Bernie Krause Bernard L. Krause (born December 8, 1938) is an American musician and soundscape ecologist. In 1968, he founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Krause is an author, a bio-acoustici ...

, author and composer (with companion CD) (1998) * ''The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place'', edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young (1999) * ''A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush'', edited by Joshua Paddison (1999) * ''Topaz Moon: Art of the Internment'', Kimi Kodani Hill (2000). A biography of

Chiura Obata was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher. A self-described "roughneck", Obata went to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career a ...

, who started the art school at Tanforan and Topaz. * ''Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience'', edited by

Lawson Fusao Inada Lawson Fusao Inada (born May 26, 1938) is a Japanese American poet. He was the fifth poet laureate of the state of Oregon. Early life Born May 26, 1938, Inada is a third-generation Japanese American (''Sansei''). His father, Fusaji, worked as a ...

(2000) * ''The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852'', Dame Shirley ( Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) (2001) * ''How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets'', edited by Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams (2001) * ''Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California'' (2002) * ''California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present'', edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, Jack Hicks (2004) * ''Peaceful Painter: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist Hisako Hibi'', Hibi Hisako (2004), artist who worked at the Topaz Art School. * ''Journey to Topaz'',

Yoshiko Uchida Yoshiko Uchida (November 24, 1921 – June 21, 1992) was an award-winning Japanese American writer of children's books based on aspects of Japanese and Japanese American history and culture. A series of books, starting with ''Journey to Topaz'' ...

(1971, first published by Heyday 2004) * ''Sierra Birds'', John Muir Laws (2004) * ''Peace is a Four Letter Word'', Janet Nichols Lynch (2005) * ''Haslam's Valley'',

Gerald Haslam Gerald William Haslam (March 18, 1937 – April 13, 2021) was an author focused on rural and small towns in California's Great Central Valley including its poor and working-class people of all colors. A native of Oildale, California, Haslam has ...

(2005) * ''Deeper Than Gold: A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills'', Brian Bibby, photographs by Dugan Aguilar (2005) * ''Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers'', edited by

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (born 1954) is a Seminole-Muscogee-Navajo photographer, museum director, curator, and professor. She is living in Davis, California. She serves as the director of the C.N. Gorman Museum and teaches at University of Calif ...

& V. Passalacqua (2006) * ''The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada'', John Muir Laws (2007) * ''Ticket to Exile: A Memoir'',

Adam David Miller Adam David Miller (October 8, 1922 – November 4, 2020) was an American poet, writer, publisher, and radio programmer and producer. Born in Saint George, South Carolina, Miller published one of the first collections of modern African-American poet ...

(2007) * ''Woman of Ill Fame'', Erika Mailman (2007) * ''First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians'',

L. Frank L. Frank (born 1952) is the ''nom d'arte'' of L. Frank Manriquez, a Tongva- Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist. She lives and works in Santa Rosa, California. Art In 1990, L. Frank was Artist in ...

and Kim Hogeland (2007) * ''Above All: Mount Whitney + California's Highest Peaks'', Steve Roper, photographs by David Stark Wilson. (with the Yosemite Association) (2008) * ''Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints'', Gary Snyder, illustrated by

Tom Killion Thomas H. Killion (born 1957) is an American politician. A Republican, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 9th Senatorial District from 2016 until 2020. He previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Repre ...

(2009) * ''Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California'', Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi (2009) * ''Married at Fourteen: A True Story'', Lucille Lang Day (2012) * ''The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds'', John Muir Laws (2012) * ''Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir'',

Deborah A. Miranda Deborah A. Miranda is a Native American writer, poet, and professor of English at Washington and Lee University. Her father, Alfred Edward Robles Miranda is from the Esselen and Chumash people, native to the Santa Barbara/Santa Ynez/Monterey, Ca ...

(2013) * ''Looking at Art, the Art of Looking'', Richard Nagler (2014) * ''A Is for Acorn: A California Indian ABC'', Analisa Tripp, illustrations by Lyn Risling (2015) * ''The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling'', John Muir Laws (2016) * ''Fred Korematsu Speaks Up'', Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (2017) * '' The California Field Atlas'', Obi Kaufmann (2017) * ''Foucault in California'', Simeon Wade (2019) * ''Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations'', John Tateishi (2020) *''Something Wonderful'', Matt Ritter, Nayl Gonzalez (2021) ISBN 9780999896013 *''Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War'', Daniel A. Sjursen (2020) ISBN 9781597145145 * ''The Forests of California'', Obi Kaufmann (2020) *''Dream State: California in the Movies'', Mick LaSalle (2021) ISBN 9781597145329 *''An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir'', Ursula Pike (2021) ISBN 978-1597145275 *''Birds of Lake Merritt'', Alex Harris (2021) ISBN 9781597145480 *''Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California'', Malcolm Margolin (2021) ISBN 9781597145350 *''Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World'', Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson (2020) ISBN 9781597145190 *''Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America'', Sherry L. Smith (2020) ISBN 978-1597145169 *''Hellacious California: Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State'', Gary Noy (2020) ISBN 978-1597144995 *''Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood'', Marni Fylling (2020) ISBN 9781597144803 *''Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada'', Keith Hansen, Edward C. Beedy, Adam Donkin (2021) ISBN 9781597145336 *''My Country ’Tis of Thee: Reporting, Sallies, and Other Confessions'', David Harris (2020) ISBN 9781597145152 *

Awards

Book awards

* ALA Notable Book, American Library Association * American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award * American Book Award,

Before Columbus Foundation The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature". The Foundation makes annual awards for books published in ...

PEN/Beyond Margins Award PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing i ...

* California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club, Gold Medal * California Collection Book, California Readers Association * ''Choice Magazine'' Outstanding Academic Title * Commonwealth Club Award, Silver Medal * Foreword Book of the Year Award, Bronze Medal * Journalism Award-Media Award, American Planning Association *

Kiriyama Prize The Kiriyama Prize was an international literary award awarded to books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. Its goal was to encourage greater understanding among the peoples and nations of the region. Established in 1996, the prize was last awa ...

Notable Book * National Wildlife Federation's Communicator of the Year Award * Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award * PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award * PubWest Book Design Award *

Rolling Stone Magazine ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its cove ...

Ralph J. Gleason Award *

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

Award,

Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

Awards won by Margolin, as publisher

* American Book Award for Publishing/Editing, Before Columbus Foundation * Award for Organizational Excellence,

American Association for State and Local History The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is a non-profit association for state and local history, with a primary focus on history professionals, history volunteers, museums, historical societies, and other history-related organi ...

* California Council for the Promotion of History Award * California Indian Heath Services Award * Carey McWilliams Award for Lifetime Achievement, California Studies Association * Cultural Freedom Award,

Lannan Foundation The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...

(2008)Catherine Stifter
"Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday Books, wins Lannan Culture Freedom Award"
''Saving the Sierra'', December 16, 2008. * Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists * Fred Cody Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association * Gerbode Fellowship * Helen Crocker Russell Award for Community Leadership,

San Francisco Foundation San Francisco Foundation is a San Francisco Bay Area philanthropy organization. It is one of the largest community foundations Community foundations (CFs) are instruments of civil society designed to pool donations into a coordinated investment and ...

* The

Hubert Howe Bancroft Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote, published and collected works concerning the western United States, Texas, California, Alaska, Mexico, Central America and British Columbi ...

Award, The Bancroft Library * Martin Baumhoff Award for Achievement by the Society for California Archaeology * The Oscar Lewis Award for Contributions to Western Society, Book Club of California * Presidential Commendation, The Society for California Archaeology * Publishing Award, California Horticultural Society * Special recognition for leadership in the arts,

California Arts Council The California Arts Council is a state agency based in Sacramento, United States. Its eight council members are appointed by the Governor and the state Legislature. The agency's mission is to advance California through arts, culture and creativit ...

References

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